Objectives

• To promote policy cooperation and innovative actions supporting all strands of the Programme
• To promote a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment and media literacy
• To promote cross-sectoral activities that aim at adjusting to the structural and technological changes faced by the media, including enhancing a free, diverse, and pluralistic media environment, quality journalism and media, literacy including in the digital environment

Priority

• Encourage systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations to improve the viability and competitiveness of professionally produced journalism, by focusing on collaborative business transformation and/or collaborative journalistic projects

Among financed actions

• Collaborative projects between any news media (sub)sector and/or genre that aim to enhance cooperation and instil systemic change across the wider news media ecosystem

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries
• Associations and interest groupings : Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

• Total budget of the topic « NEWS-Journalism partnerships » : 7.5 million euro 
• Amount of the grant: between 300,000 and 2.5 million euro 
• Co-financing rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs